hsntnovel Chapter 144 Qin Zhen and Ge Erzhu
Chapter 144 Qin Zhen and Ge Erzhu
Chapter 144 Qin Zhen and Ge Erzhu
In the 52nd district of the survivor resettlement area where Tianya gathers, some changes have taken place a few days ago. First, the staff of the government department came to coordinate and vacated [-] tents, and the aborigines were relocated to other areas.
Then the military drove a small construction truck over, covered the empty space with barbed wire, and did a simple cleaning and disinfection. All bedding and the like were replaced with the new military green army standard.
Such a big movement naturally attracted the attention of the surrounding survivors, who all speculated about the purpose of this new resettlement area.
Some people said it was for celebrities, some said it was for adventurers, and some said it was for rich people. All kinds of discussions didn't disappear until a group of ordinary workers moved in.
But what followed was more intense noise and dissatisfaction, because after this group of seemingly ordinary people moved into this new resettlement area, the treatment made the precarious survivors very jealous.
Three meals a day are provided, and there is even a small amount of meat in the dishes. Whenever a meal is served in this new resettlement area, the aroma of the food always attracts countless survivors around like zombies who crowd the barbed wire fence and watch with red eyes.
ding ding ding~
A horn on a long pole in the center of the new settlement jingles in a soothing rhythm.
"It's time to eat! Hurry up, beast, you will be hungry if you go late!"
In the tent numbered 0035, a fat man who was lying on a prefabricated house heard the bell, jumped up with agility that was extremely inappropriate for his body shape, and shouted to the young man sitting on another bed.
“I’ll be right soon!”
A gentle-looking young man with round-rimmed glasses carefully flipped through his notebook while answering slowly.
This gentle young man, formerly named Qin Zhen, was originally a graduate student at a key university. Half a year ago, his father, who had built tanks for half his life, died in the line of duty and became a martyr.
Because his parents divorced since he was a child, Qin Zhen has been living with his father, and he has a fanatical love for tanks under his influence, so he chose ground weapon mobile engineering in college.
Professional counterpart, in line with inheriting his father's business and carrying his father's last wish, he agreed to the special recruitment of Dongfang Industrial Group and returned to the workshop where his father worked.
But after arriving at the workshop, he had just cleaned the barrels of the cannons in a routine and traditional manner for several months. The apocalypse broke out. He almost died before his talents could be used, and he was rescued by the army after a narrow escape.
Then he came here with the army, and was resettled like ordinary survivors, as if forgotten, and there was no movement for several months.
A few days ago, a government worker found him and brought him here after confirming his identity. He thought he would return to his old job, but unexpectedly, he lived like a pig in captivity, eating and sleeping every day. Finish eating.
But even so, Qin Zhen didn't slack off, still watching his father's writing skills every day, thinking about tanks in his head.
"Let's go!" Fatty urged again.
Seeing that the fat man was so upset, Qin Zhen had no choice but to put the notebook in his backpack and carry it on his back.
"Okay, let's go!"
The cooking place is a simple big shed, supported by steel bars all around, and the top is covered with the tarpaulin that is commonly used for the roof of trucks.
When the two trotted over, they found that hundreds of people had lined up at each of the four windows.
"Damn it, these people are so fast, why are starving ghosts reincarnated?" The fat man let out a loud wail.
"Pillar!"
Qin Zhen saw the unkind looks from the people queuing around him, and immediately covered the fat Ge Erzhu's mouth with his hand.
Ge Erzhu also realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, clasped his hands together with embarrassment, and bowed around.
Feeling Ge Erzhu's apology, the other survivors around turned their heads back and did not continue to embarrass them.
The two quickly found a line that looked slightly shorter than the other teams and lined up.
Just as he stood up, the fat man Ge Erzhu's eyes suddenly lit up, his nose twitched a few times quickly, and then Qin Zhen, whose expression could not hide his excitement, said:
"Beast, there are good things today! I can smell the smell of stewed pork! There are also potatoes! What day is it today!"
"Potato stewed pork? What's the matter? Isn't this food a bit abnormal?" Qin Zhen was not excited when he heard it, but was puzzled.
"Whatever! Let's eat first, then we can kill or chop them as they please!"
Compared to Qin Zhen's doubts, the fat man Ge Erzhu didn't have too many thoughts. He had always been a person who enjoyed himself in time.
"What? You said I'm going to die tomorrow? Why the hell did you tell me what will happen tomorrow today?"
This may be Ge Erzhu's life creed.
As children, the two were classmates since childhood. They were not only in the same class, but even in the same dormitory in college. He knew who Ge Erzhu was, so he didn't try to emphasize anything with Ge Erzhu.
The two of them cooked a meal, and the fat man didn't know that there was pork stewed with potatoes. In each bowl, there were two lumps of fat meat of the same size. When they were so fat that they were patted with a spoon, the meat would shake back and forth like jelly.
Holding the dinner plate, the two tried their best not to look outside when they passed the wire fence, because at this time, the people lying on the wire fence were a group of hungry survivors.
Especially those children, their faces were dirty, their little hands were stuck between the gaps in the iron net, and they stared at them with staring eyes.
Some women held their months-old children and kept begging the survivors inside the barbed wire.
"Someone with good intentions, please give me something to eat. The child will starve to death without milk!"
"Brother, my sister is starving to death. Please give me some food! Please, I'm going to kowtow to you!"
Whenever he was at the food stall, Qin Zhen could always hear these sounds that seemed to come from hell. As if subconsciously, both of them turned their heads to the other side, not looking over there.
Suffering all the way in their hearts, the two finally returned to their tents, sat on their respective beds, and silently ate their meals.
During the whole process, there was no sound other than the muffled chewing sound and the collision of the spoon and the plate, and even the usually lively fat man stopped.
ding ding ding~
After an unknown period of time, the bell rang again. This was the sound of collecting tableware. Because there is no water source in the new area, and residents are not allowed to go out, the tableware is collected by the staff and then cleaned.
The fat man saw that Qin Zhen was still holding the empty plate in a daze and ignored the ringing, so he couldn't help but remind him:
"Beast, put away the plates!"
After the fat man Ge Erzhu yelled several times in a row, Qin Zhen came back to his senses.
"Fatty, when do you think this day will be a head?"
"I don't know, don't be sad, these are really not something we can change, let alone do stupid things, it will only hurt them..."
Hearing what the fat man Ge Erzhu said, Qin Zhen couldn't help feeling guilty, and remembered the last thing he didn't want to think of that happened a few days ago.
At that time, he had just moved into this new district, and when he was amazed by the good food in this district, he was attracted by a little girl outside the barbed wire.
It was a little girl of seven or eight years old, holding a little boy of about four or five years old outside the barbed wire fence. Both children were dirty.
Qin Zhen, who was cooking dinner, passed by there, and was attracted by the little girl's pleading voice.
"Brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts, please do me a favor. My mother is sick and is about to starve to death. Can you give me something to eat? Just a little bit, please!"
The two siblings cried pitifully, and it was very miserable. Looking at the extremely pitiful two siblings, Qin Zhen felt compassion. He thought that it didn't matter if he missed one meal three times a day. Saving one life was better than building a seven-level pagoda!
So he ignored the fat man's stop, and passed the food on the dinner plate to the little girl bit by bit through the barbed wire.
To this day, he still remembers how the survivors outside were frantically fighting for food from the two siblings like hungry wolves. He also remembers the two older children, who were trampled under their feet by the crowd, with faces full of pain and helplessness. , struggling desperately, that desperate face, Qin Zhen is sure that he will never forget it in his life...
(End of this chapter)